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The United States is the greatest country in the history of everything, if you just listen to its leaders, and a disgrace among developed countries, if you just read international surveys. Our health care system is famously expensive and inaccessible. Our education system is famously broken. Oh, and our income inequality? It's just famous.

The unhappiest workers are in Yorkshire and the Humber where just two in five claim to be happy while the happiest workers hail from the East Midlands with a whopping 80 per cent claiming to be happy.
Happiness increases steadily during the working week, with almost a third saying they rate happiness as either poor or very poor on Mondays compared to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
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Research shows that the unhappiest workers are in Yorkshire and the Humber where just two in five claim not to be happy while the happiest workers hail from the East Midlands with a whopping 80 per cent claiming to be happy.
Happiness increases steadily during the working week, with almost a third saying they rate happiness as either poor or very poor on Mondays compared to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

We live in a 24/7 culture that's always on. With the ability to stay connected around the clock, the lines between work and home have blurred. While some employees are still searching for a work-life balance, a younger generation of workers are focused on work-life integration. That shift has happened quickly, with millennials welcoming the change.

The challenge was a six-week trip around the tourist-free parts of China with two feral children, no guide and not a word of Mandarin. Sara Wheeler was relieved at and surprised by the warm welcome that awaited her family.

Today's New York Times gets in on the new theme - China's labor force is movin' on up:
If Wang Jinyan, an unemployed factory worker with a middle school education, had a résumé, it might start out like this: “Objective: seeking well-paid, slow-paced assembly-line work in air-conditioned plant with Sundays off, free wireless Internet and washing machines in dormitory. Friendly boss a plus.”